Kenny Brown - Goin' Back To Mississippi - Plum Tone PT 711

Kenny Brown Band

This Nesbit, Mississippi native has several influences that really come
through on this release. From The Rolling Stones, Lynyrd Skynyrd and
Joe Ely to his collaborations with such great talents as R.L. Burnside,
Joe Callicot, Junior Kimbrough and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion,
Kenny still manages to have his own unique spin on it, to put it mildly.
Actually, this release is a shining example of just how versatile Kenny
and his band are at taking you to several places musically that you may
have forgotten existed.

This CD represents a very important trend that needs to grow within the
blues community. That is the involvement of the listener by time-tested
methods mixed with personal conviction and powerful control over the
material, the arrangements and the instrumentation. Kenny has managed
to do all this and more by composing a few songs, using some alternate
tunings, slide work, and getting a wide variety of sounds that will all
fit right in your pocket.

Kenny also creatively used some excellent cover material such as "Jumper
On The Line" arranged by R.L. Burnside, "Talk About Me" by Jessie Mae
Hemphill, "Grease Monkey" by Dale Beavers, and the wonderful co-written
"In The Mood" by Junior Kimbrough and Kenny.

With Dale Beavers on guitar and vocals, John Bonds on drums and Terrence
Bishop on bass, Kenny leads the tight-knit combo through this musical
tour-de-force on guitar and vocals as well. Recorded at Hawk's Nest in
North Little Rock in the fall of `96 and engineered by Jeffery Reed,
this CD is a classic in so many ways that it will bear repeated
listening and deserves to be in any music lover's collection!